In the footsteps of Vivek Desai’s book on Ahmedabad. In this photographer’s book, we have not indulged in ‘color corrections’ and have keep the colors and casts as they were. We were told not even to ‘touch’ the photographs for dust and scratches.
The whole book is printed with 10m stochastic screen and maximum data from the originals is transferred on the printed sheet, giving almost screen-less, bromide look to the photographs. There are some extra photographs which are ‘grainy’ and the grains are also transferred as they were in the original.
We have very honestly and truthfully translated his art onto the printed paper rather than ‘artificially beautifying’ it. Though it is smaller in size compared to Ahmedabad, its stature is not less...
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